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294 her object, the mother continues to administer the vermifuge which the accompanying directions inform her never fails, until the child is almost dead. At last a physician is called, and the mother is fortunate if her child is rescued from death and herself saved from the crime of infanticide.

Take another case. A child has taken cold and has a slight catarrh. The mother is awakened in the night by his coughing;—she is instantly terrified with the thought of croup, and as soon as possible proceeds to administer croup syrup. She gives one dose according to the directions. The child is no better. She repeats the dose, and the child grows worse. She continues the medication, until, before morning, the child sinks under the influence of lobelia, antimony, or some other poison, and expires. Now if this good mother had given her child a cup of water, or called some prudent physician, her child might have been well in the morning.

These are no mere fancy sketches, but true reports of cases which have often occurred; and every thoughtful mother should know that all